Electronic Devices and Circuits

Lecture Notes, Study Materials and Important questions answers

Subject : Electronic Devices and Circuits

PN JUNCTION DEVICES
1. Semiconductor: Diode - Answer (click here)
2. Review of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Semiconductors - Answer (click here)
3. PN Junction Diode:Operation, V-I characteristics of Forward and
Reverse Bias Condition - Answer (click here)
4. Transition capacitances - Answer (click here)
5. Diffusion capacitance - Answer (click here)
6. Half Wave Rectifier: Characteristics and Working - Answer (click here)
7. Full wave rectifier: Center Tapped Full Wave and Full Wave Bridge
Rectifier - Answer (click here)
8. Light Emitting Diode (LED) - Answer (click here)
9. Laser diode and its L/I characteristic - Answer (click here)
10. A Zener Diode and its characteristics, Regulator - Answer (click here)
11. Important Short Questions and Answers: PN Junction Devices - Answer
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TRANSISTORS
1. Transistors: Types, Construction, Currents - Answer (click here)
2. Operation of an NPN and PNP Transistor - Answer (click here)
3. Configuration of Transistor Circuit: CB, CE, CC configuration Input and
Output Characteristics - Answer (click here)
4. Common base(CB) configuration of Transistor - Answer (click here)
5. Common emitter (CE) configuration of Transistor - Answer (click here)
6. Common collector (CC) configuration of Transistor - Answer (click here)
7. Field Effect Transistor(FET) and its Operation - Answer (click here)
8. MOSFET (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor) -
Depletion and Enhancement mode: Construction, Operation, Symbol,
Characteristics - Answer (click here)
9. Biasing: Fixed Bias or Base Bias and Stability of Operating Point -
 Answer (click here)
10. Uni Junction Transistor (UJT): Construction, Operation, Characteristics,
Applications - Answer (click here)
11. Silicon Controlled Rectifier (SCR): Construction, Working Principle -
Answer (click here)
12. V-I Characteristics of SCR - Answer (click here)
13. DIAC (Diode A.C. Switch): Circuit symbol, Construction, Operation, V-
I characteristics, Applications - Answer (click here)
14. TRIAC: symbol, basics, Operation, Characteristics, Advantages and
disadvantages - Answer (click here)
15. Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor(IGBT) and its Characteristics - Answer
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16. Important Short Questions and Answers: Transistors - Answer (click here)

AMPLIFIERS
1. CE, CB and CC Amplifiers Circuits - Answer (click here)
2. Small Signal Low Frequency h-parameter Model - Answer (click here)
3. General shape of frequency response of amplifiers - Answer (click here)
4. Low frequency analysis of amplifier to obtain lower cut-off frequency -
Answer (click here)
5. MOSFET small signal model Amplifiers - Answer (click here)
6. High frequency analysis of MOSFET - Answer (click here)
7. Frequency Response of Common Source Amplifier - Answer (click here)
8. Important Short Questions and Answers: Amplifier Circuits - Answer
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MULTISTAGE AMPLIFIERS AND DIFFERENTIAL

AMPLIFIER
1. Multistage Amplifiers - Answer (click here)
2. Advantages of Representation of Gain in Decibels - Answer (click here)
3. Basics of Differential Amplifier - Answer (click here)
4. Transistorised Differential Amplifier - Answer (click here)
5. Differential Mode Operation - Differential Amplifier - Answer (click here)
6. Common Mode operation and Configurations - Differential Amplifier -
Answer (click here)
7. D.C. Analysis of Differential Amplifier - Answer (click here)
8. Tuned amplifier - Answer (click here)
9. General shape of frequency response of amplifiers - Answer (click here)
10. Neutralization Methods - Answer (click here)
11. Power Amplifiers - Answer (click here)
12. Important Short Questions and Answers: Multistage Amplifiers and
Differential Amplifier - Answer (click here)

FEEDBACK AMPLIFIERS AND OSCILLATORS

1. Feed Back Amplifiers and Oscillators - Answer (click here)
2. Feedback: Positive and Negative feedback - Answer (click here)
3. Principles of Negative Voltage Feedback In Amplifiers - Answer (click
here)
4. Gain of Negative Voltage Feedback Amplifier - Answer (click here)
5. Advantages of Negative Voltage Feedback - Answer (click here)
6. Effects of Negative Current Feedback - Answer (click here)
7. Oscillators - Answer (click here)
8. The Hartley Oscillator - Answer (click here)
9. The Colpitts Oscillator - Answer (click here)
10. Wien Bridge Oscillator - Answer (click here)
11. Quartz Crystal Oscillators - Answer (click here)
12. Important Short Questions and Answers: Feed Back Amplifiers and
Oscillators - Answer (click here)